The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author)
Comic Verse, Urban Vignettes, and the Life Behind the StoriesBy O. Henry
Length7h 40m
About this audiobook
The Complete Poetry of O. Henry, Including a Biography of the Author, presents the lesser-known poetic work of William Sydney Porter alongside an account of the turbulent life that shaped his literary imagination. These poems reveal, in compressed and often playful form, the wit, sentiment, irony, and vernacular energy more commonly associated with his short fiction. Read in the context of turn-of-the-century American popular literature, they illuminate his recurring concern with ordinary people, urban experience, romantic disappointment, and the unexpected reversals of fortune. The volume thus broadens our understanding of an author whose literary reputation has too often been confined to the surprise ending. The accompanying biography situates Porter within the social and professional worlds that informed his writing: the American South of his youth, his work in journalism and banking, his imprisonment for embezzlement, and his subsequent emergence under the pen name O. Henry. These experiences help explain the sympathy, skepticism, and imaginative escape that animate both his poetry and prose, while placing his career within the expanding literary marketplace of the early twentieth century. This volume is recommended to readers interested in American literary history, popular verse, and the relationship between biography and artistic form. It will especially reward admirers of O. Henry's short stories by revealing a more intimate, lyrical, and formally varied dimension of his talent.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length7 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving Collection
2The Complete Poetry of O. Henry
3A Contribution
4Chanson De Bohême
5Drop A Tear In This Slot
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6Hard To Forget
7Nothing To Say
8Tamales
9The Lullaby Boy
10The Murderer
11The Old Farm
12The Pewee
13Two Portraits
14Vanity
15Sleeping
16Fancies
17Trusting
18Thoughts
19Thinking
20The Crucible
21Biography of O. Henry
22Chapter One: The Life And The Story
23Chapter Two: Vogue
24Chapter Three: Ancestry
25Chapter Four: Birthplace And Early Years
26Chapter Five: Ranch And City Life In Texas
27Chapter Six: The Shadowed Years
28Chapter Seven: Finding Himself In New York
29Chapter Eight: Favourite Themes
30Chapter Nine: Last Days
The Wit and Humor of America (Vol. 1-10)O. Henry, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Kendrick Bangs, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Ward Beecher, John G. Saxe, James Russell Lowell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert W. Chambers, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wallace Irwin, Eugene Field, Anne Virginia Culbertson, John Paul, Lloyd Osbourne, James Montgomery Flagg, Bill Nye, Robert J. Burdette, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Gelett Burgess, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank L. Stanton, Bayard Taylor, Artemus Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Charles Dudley Warner, Carolyn Wells, Owen Wister56h 15m$0.99 · $0.00
American Short Stories – Best Books Boxed Set (Annotated)O. Henry, H. P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser62h 40m$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York City Stories (Annotated)O. Henry12h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories (Annotated)O. Henry12h 7m$2 · $0.00
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four MillionO. Henry4h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York StoriesO. Henry11h 50m$1 · $0.00
Sixes and SevensO. Henry4h 55m$2 · $0.00
Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving CollectionO. Henry, George Eliot, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell19h 26m$0.99 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other Tales of New YorkO. Henry10h 53m$1 · $0.00
The Complete WorksO. Henry106h 22m$2 · $0.00
Herz des WestensO. Henry8h 36m$3 · $0.00
O. Henryana: Seven Odds and Ends, Poetry and Short StoriesO. Henry1h 14m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of O. HenryO. Henry116h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more) (Annotated)O. Henry103h 51m$0.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Thanksgiving TalesO. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Nora Perry, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell19h 42m$0.99 · $0.00
Sechser und SiebenerO. Henry7h 2m$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi & Other Christmas Stories by O. Henry (Annotated)O. Henry2h 54m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete WorksO. Henry106h 26m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of O. HenryO. Henry109h 17m$0.99 · $0.00
The Night Before Christmas (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Clement Clarke Moore1h 47m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry of Dylan Thomas (Annotated)Dylan Thomas4h 53m$1.99 · $0.00
Dickinson: The Complete Works (Annotated)Emily Dickinson16h 56m$0.99 · $0.00
And the World Spins AnywayGeorgie Jones1h 45m$20 · $0.00
TerraformPropaganda5h 39m$24 · $0.00
The Essential NerudaPablo Neruda1h 55m$25
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Samuel Taylor Coleridge1h 57m$2 · $0.00
UnashamedHarry Baker1h 33m4.0 (1)$20 · $0.00
Maybe You Never Cry AgainBernie Mac4h 25m$20 · $0.00
Inquire WithinIn-Q2h 18m$16 · $0.00
The Poetic EddaJackson Crawford6h 24m$17
Poems of ParentingLoryn Brantz42m4.0 (1)$9 · $0.00
The Weary Blues (Annotated)Langston Hughes2h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)Edgar Allan Poe18h 27m$2 · $0.00
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded EditionJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi9h 24m$20
The Complete Poetry (Annotated)Oscar Wilde6h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works (Annotated)Robert Burns38h 34m$2 · $0.00
Saundarya LahariUnknown Author3h 16m5.0 (1)$18 · $0.00
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